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It is described in " the Coromandel Plants" as follows: 

 " Stem erect, shrubby. Branches opposite, cross-armed, 

 " ascending. Bark of the ligneous parts ash-coloured, with 

 dark purplish specks. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 

 from elliptic to lanceolate, smooth, entire; length from 

 *^ three to six inches. Stipules or I'ather connecting mem- 

 *' branes, broad, ensiform. Flotvers sessile, in terminal 

 " corymbose heads, on short tnchotomous branclilets, nu- 

 " mcrous, pure white. Bractes ensiform, villous, several 

 " surrounding each fascicle or head of flower's, as well as 

 " intermixed among them. Calyx above, 5-cleft, perma- 

 " nent; divisions subulate. Corolla l-petalled, funnel- 

 " shaped. Tube slender, widening a little towards the mouth. 

 *' Border of five spreading oblong divisions. Filaments 5, 

 " very short, inserted into the tube of the corolla a little 

 " within its mouth. Anthers half-erect, linear. Germen 

 '* beneath, oval. Style as long as the tube of the corolla; 

 " stigma 5-cleft. Capsule oblong, haiiy, one-celled, five- 

 *' valved, opening from the apex: seeds o, one for each valve 

 «* of the capsule, black, compressed, enclosed in a di-y 

 " latticed aril " 



